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Wrap-Up: StumbleUpon and Skype to Leave the Fold, PayPal Seller Troubles [eBay Edition]
Three bits of big news concerning eBay continue to make the rounds today. StumbleUpon leaves eBay, starting up again on own two feet [VentureBeat] – Eric Eldon reports that social news discovery site StumbleUpon, acquired in 2007 for $75 million, will be spun off into it’s own independent entity. “We are grateful to eBay for ...
Conversation: What it Takes to Succeed on Facebook
Nick O’Neill over at AllFacebook has done some good work documenting the continuing fallout from Facebook’s most recent site re-design, particularly on how it’s affected app usage. Not surpisingly, there’s a lot of shakeup in the top applications, apps that were tailor made to succeed in the environment previously provided by the top social network: ...
#AmazonFail: Anatomy of a #TwitterWin [PR Post Mortem]
If Twitter ever needed a watershed moment to once and for all define the importance of Twitter, the AmazonFail fiasco that occurred over Easter weekend was it. In case you missed it, over the weekend, an author that specializes in gay-themed romance novels, inquired as to why his work wasn’t showing up in the top ...
Update: 3 Editors and 24 Contributors on siliconANGLE.com – Open Source Approach to Profit Sharing
I’m really happy with the recent activity around what was launched as a side project of mine – siliconANGLE.com. As of today we have 3 editors: me, Mark Rizzn Hopkins, and Rex Dixon. Even more exciting is that we have 24 contributors signed up to blog with us. With the growth of siliconANGLE going strong, ...
Cisco’s CDN is for its “Comm-puters”
We pointed to tips StreamingMedia’s Dan Rayburn received yesterday regarding the prospect of Cisco creating their own CDN. It looks like GigaOm’s Stacey Higginbotham picked up those tips and put it in context for us this morning in his reporting on the acquisition by Cisco of Tidal Software: Cisco this morning said it plans to ...
Is Cisco Setting Up Their Own CDN?
According to Dan Rayburn at StreamingMedia, there is growing evidence that Cisco might be creating their very own CDN. In a post today, he cited a couple colocation company’s reports that Cisco had acquired space in their facilities. Within the past week, two colocation companies have contacted me to say that Cisco is acquiring colocation ...
Kachingle: “Wait until the Summer; we’ll save journalism then.”
Of course right now, the biggest meme amongst the Heritage Media (at least the print side) is to sue the crap out of New Media, and the rest of the Internet, in a desperate means to try to stay alive. If you dial back the clock one month, though, you’ll see that the same folks ...
Why Follow Wizzard Media?
Today, at my personal blog, I posted news of Wizzard Media’s quarterly earnings. While they were still almost two million short of being profitable for 2008 fiscal calendar, they showed significant and steady progress towards profitability over past years: Despite the economic trauma (which even Wizzard fell victim to in Q4 ‘08), the end of ...
Major Tech Business Moves: IBM, Sun, and AOL. Is This 1996? [Roundup]
Big business is in the tech news today. IBM Not Buying Sun. A story that’s been flying slightly under most radars the last couple weeks has been the ongoing talks between IBM and Sun about the terms of Sun’s acquisition. It turns out these talks broke down today. While neither IBM or Sun consistently generate ...
The New FriendFeed Layout: The Real Time Web
The talk of the town, at least in the “cool kids crowd” of hip social networks, is the new beta rollout to Friendfeed’s service. There’s a lot that can be said about it (and a lot being said about it by others). The sense of the users, though, could best be described as cautiously optimistic ...
